Improvement in paper files



identi effin.

RD gldlg JOHN c. FLOYD, JR., or NnWYonK, N. r,

v Letters Patent No.` 111,335, dated January 31, 1871.

IMRovEMEN'T '1N PAPE-R FILES.

The Schedule referred co in these Letters Patent and making parl; of thesame.

Figure 1 represents my improved iIeandbinder opened up.

- Figure 2 is a detail cross-section of the same, taken y through theline :c a1, iig. l.

Similar letters.- of reference indicate corresponding parts.. Y

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved file and binderfor ling and binding temporarily or permanently,papers, pamphlets, andother periodicals, successively as they are received, and

. which shall be simplev in construction, easily and` convenientlymanipulated, and will hold Ithe papers se` curely and without mutilating'them or interfering with their being subsequently bound; and U Itconsists in the construction ,and combination -of various parts of' thefile and binder, as hereinafter more fully described. l

A and B represent the two parts or leaves of the cover, which are madeof book-binders'board in the ordinary manner, and which are connectedwith each other by a flexible back, C, as shown in fig; 2.

D are'leather'straps, which are connected at one end to one of theplates or leaves of the cover, as A, by rivets or other convenient andsubstantial means. The straps D have each two rows of' holes formed inthem, as shown'in fig. 1.

lo the lstraps D,- at or near vtheir stationary ends, `are attached theends of the cords or tapes E, which have ametallic piercer, F, attached`to their free ends. Or, if desired, the cords-or tapes E may be passedthrough the eyeof a needle, and their two ends brought together andattached to the 'stationary' end of the strapsD. y l

G are `keepers, attached to the other plate or leaf', as B, ofthe coverthrough which the free ends of the straps D are passed, to hold the saidstraps down to their places when onev or more of the papers may bcattached to them.

lVhen using the ijle and binder for the first paper, the paper is laidin'place upon the leaf or plate A of the cover, and the piercer orneedle F passed through ithe first hole of one of the rows ot' holes inthe straps D, and through the paper to be tiled at its back or` fold,and is passed back through the paper and the first hole of the otherVrow of holes in said straps. The cord or tape E is then passed onceortwioe through a hole or holes in the end of the straps D, and the saidcords or tapes E- and straps D are passed l through the keepers G, anddrawn tight, bringing the inner or rear edges of the plates or leaves AB`close to the paper or papers filed.

Thefree ends ofthe cords or tapes E' are thenl passed around and securedto *smalltlat belaying cleatslH, or other suitable fasteningsattached'to the plate or leaf B of the cover near its outer edge.

. In lche same way other papers are added .as may i, be required.

., Having thus described my invention,

Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent--- The peribratedleather-straps D, cords or tapes E,

metallic piercers F, keepers G, bel'aying cleats H, or equivalentfastenings, in combination with thc plates or leaves A B, and flexiblebachv C, substanf' tially as herein shown and described and forl thepurp pose set forth.

JOHN G. FLOYD, JR.

Witnesses:

' JAMES ,l. GRAHAM, T. B. Mosnnn.

